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Psychical Structures and Alcoholics Anonymous

Oliver Murphy

Issue 36 — Spring 2006

87–93

This article gives an outline of a thesis presented for a M.Litt degree. The philosophical framework of the thesis was structured within ; psychoanalytic paradigm. The aim of the study was to explore which structural type will be most satisfied with the A.A. program and thus presumably benefit most from it. The hypothesis stated that subjects with an obsessional structure will be more satisfied with A.A. than subjects with a perverse structure.…

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